Kendyll Romine FoodCorps, a national farm to school organization that is part of the AmeriCorps Service Network, has officially launched in Georgia! FoodCorps mission is to connect children in underserved communities to real food in order to help them grow up healthy. This year, FoodCorps added Georgia and Washington, D.C. to its existing 15-state program after a … Read more
By Examiner.com/Atlanta Sustainability Examiner Posted: September 3, 2014 On September 3, 2014, FoodCorps volunteers worked in the Burgess Peterson Academy garden. They will be helping work and improve the school garden over the next year. The garden is an extension to classroom learning and also is working to offer fresh garden items to the school’s cafeteria. … Read more
By Southeast Green Posted: September 6, 2014Captain Planet Foundation’s (www.captainplanetf.wpengine.com) innovative Project Learning GardenTM provides schools with strategies for building effective and sustainable garden-based learning programs. By the end of 2014, the program will have 110 Project Learning Garden schools in its hometown of Atlanta (Atlanta Public Schools and Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett Public School Systems) and 10 schools in a pilot program in Ventura … Read more
School Garden Program Teaches Kids to Eat and Grow Healthy FoodPosted: September 8, 2014 3:43 pmBy Anastasia Pantsios -EcoWatch Since a taste for processed, sugar- and salt-heavy foods is developed at a young age, many healthy food initiatives are focusing on kids. And that means schools, where healthy eating programs are multiplying. Many of those go beyond just providing … Read more
“Captain Planet Foundation: Empowering everyday superheroes”Posted: September 2014By Betsy Reid- Georgia Nonprofit NowIn 1990, Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) debuted an animated series starring five teenagers who, with the assist of earth’s greatest champion, Captain Planet, tackled an array of environmental challenges, working together to take down the “soldiers of slime” and other environmental bad guys. The … Read more
Project Learning GardenPosted: Sept. 10By The DeKalb NeighborSee Photos The Captain Planet Foundation’s innovative Project Learning Garden program integrates gardens with core subject lessons, connects gardens to school cafeterias, provides professional development for teachers to provide project-based learning to students and maintains the garden during the summer. The program has school gardens DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett … Read more
Guest column: Growing farm-to-school with FoodCorpsPosted: Sept. 3By Erin Croom, Farm to School Director, Georgia Organics – Georgia Farmers and Consumers Market Bulletin One of the most successful tactics to get children to eat more fruits and vegetables is to have them plant, grow, and harvest food in a garden, which is one of the … Read more
Learning Magazine FeaturePosted: August 2014By Leaning Magazine One of the Southeast’s largest eco-benefits, the annual Captain Planet Foundation Gala will be held on Friday, Dec. 5 at the InterContinental Buckhead Atlanta (3315 Peachtree Road NE) from 6:00-9:30 p.m. Single tickets are $750, $1,500 per couple, and corporate tables start at $5,000. The charitable evening will raise … Read more
The purpose of the ExplorOceans Eco-Teach club is to connect students, technology, and environmentalism. During the program, students learned about environmental issues, and created and used state-of-the-art tools to conduct research, document, and share their discoveries with the world! Okay, to put it simply, they built underwater robots and then fitted them with film cameras … Read more
CPF’s Learning Gardens Summer Maintenance Interns Students and teachers are almost always excited for summer, but many with a school garden worry about who will care for it in their absence. Unlike a class pet, you can’t take a garden home for summer! This is where Captain Planet Foundation’s Summer Garden Crew fills the gap. … Read more